Green ham (no eggs)

摘要

Green fluorescent protein (GFP) makes these transgenic pigs glow eerily, but it has also netted its discoverers this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The prize is shared between Osamu Shimomura from the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts; Martin Chalf ie of Columbia University in New York; and Roger Tsien at the University of California, San Diego. In the 1960s, Shimomura isolated the protein from some Aequorea victoria jellyfish he had collected. Thirty years later Chalfie showed that the gene for the glow could be expressed by other organisms, allowing genetic processes to be traced in real time.